More than 5,000 Vic properties may have flammable cladding

Tuesday 5 September 2017

With high-rise apartments having sprouted like mushrooms throughout Melbourne:

The ABC reported yesterday that more than 5,000 Victorian buildings may contain combustible cladding, similar to that used on the Grenfell Tower in London, which killed at least 80 people:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.